Good luck to Gentoo Games Inc. !!

IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 7:05 am Post subject: Good luck to Gentoo Games Inc. !!

Well this is great news, now the Linux community is one step closer from reaching commercial game recognition.

Only thing that bothers me is that the first release is that questionnable US Army propaganda game... anyways, can't wait to see what's next!

plasmagunman · l33t Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 604 Location: berlin

agree, for a pacifist it is like a kick in the face...
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IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 8:01 am Post subject:

plasmagunman · l33t Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Posts: 604 Location: berlin

sorry, that wasn't the goal of my post neither. this forums should stay clean of any flamewars, since they don't make sense. i'm just a little disappointed, but as you already said: let's see what comes next.
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beowulf · Apprentice Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 225

Yep, i'm really excited to see a new linux games company started... and i hope it's run in the same manner of the Gentoo Linux OS that most of us here use!

This could become the next Loki Games?

In any case... can't wait to see what's in store for Gentoo Games!
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IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 9:31 am Post subject:

plasmagunman: Sorry for the harsh reply. I'm currently spending the whole damn night working on an important essay for school so I'm feeling extra cranky. Plus them Wake-Ups are making my stomach ache badly.

beowulf: Hell yeah, a new Loki would be great, and you can bet I'll buy everything they release if that's the case. We don't want another bankrupt Linux gaming company, now don't we?

I'm also looking forward for the newly renamed Angry Pixels company. Yes, quality gaming on Linux is coming soon.

hook · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 9:47 am Post subject:

neat

...damn i just got to get myself a credit card now!!! ...is still need to get tux-racer, hereticII and heavy metal fakk(2) from loki :]
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Unixmonkey · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 23

I think America's Army is a great choice for a first title.

It is very popular right now, and the anticipation in the linux community has been high ever since icculus posted that screenshot.

Most importantly, it is FREE. Everyone can check it out without paying a cent.
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MaRTiaN · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 2:30 pm Post subject: ebuild?

Surely being a Gentoo related issue, they could have released an ebuild with the announcement? I don't fancy downloading a cd just to try it out, the last few gentoo live-cd's haven't liked me (My cd-rom's are scsi and the scsi support on the boot disk kills my network card).

Oh well, I'll just have to wait I suppose. Kudos to them though, hopefully we'll get some cool games

Is there any way to collect information about how many people install the game? If the numbers are big enough, some of the bigger game manufacterers may decide to test the linux waters (I want thief 3 on Linux!!!!)
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Schwin97 · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2002 Posts: 65 Location: Frisco, TX

This strikes me as a VERY interesting idea. The interesting part is that this could push the pc into the realm of the console game. Think about how they are packaging their first game. Burn the iso and reboot and you are playing america's army. If they can get the boot sufficiently fast and handle more types of hardware, then a gaming company can create the game for one platform and it doesn't matter the OS being used by the owner.

How far off base am I on this???

Schwin97

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okneff · n00b Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Germany

http://www.jollix.de
it's a gentoo LiveCD that lets you set up your windoze half life (+ mods) installation. The jollix project aims in the same direction but there's only a german version at this point.[/url]

FoX · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 3:12 pm Post subject:

This is totaly a good news!

This was one of the thing the comunity needed, more games!
But was america's army game's the best choice?

Well, this is a rely good thing anyway! I wonder if they accept game idea submission.

-FoX
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Moved from Gamers & Players.
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revmoo · n00b Joined: 12 May 2003 Posts: 32

I'm not sure that hardware support would be all that difficult to do, if you think about it, most gamers will have either an Nvidia card, or an ATI card, there really aren't many other alternatives. Sound is a little bit trickier because there are so many generics, but I still don't think it would be all that difficult to accomplish.

What if they started releasing games on bootable cd's that turned your pc into a console of sorts, using the hard drive for save games, and mods/updates and such... They could even detect unsupported hardware, download the driver, and save it to your hard drive thus taking care of almost any compatibility issues...
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uzik · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 257

You probably couldn't mod probe mouse drivers since you can't tell
if the mouse is connected to a serial port. You'd have to write something
to scan for them like a modem auto detector does. There not being
that many kinds of mouse ports that's not too tough.

uzik · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 257

This would be a cool project. Sign me up if you need a C coder
or tester.

Anubis · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 68 Location: BYU

ooohhh, that I had more time to help out. Well, and I guess that I went the way of the Dark Side and switched majors from Computer Science to the evil school of business (Information Systems). Anyway, if you guys need someone to help out a bit with some C++ let me know.

Oh, almost forgot... this is yet another reason that Gentoo rules!
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Lisandro · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject:

Anything that brings gaming to Linux gets my full aproval and support! Kudos to the gentoo team!

maj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 92

sweet! games for linux - hopefully nvidia will open their sources so we can get some faster 3d support

dsample · Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 10:21 pm Post subject:

I love the idea of the liveCDs for the games, although I hope there are ebuilds too so we can have a choice of installing it properly.

I may have a look at what's on the LiveCDs and customise one for myself.

I would like to make it so that it can either grab the config files off a small 'console' partition and keep the saves there.

The other issue that I've heard from this forum seems to be the different mouse and CD-Rom Setups. The mouse issues shouldn't be a problem. I should be able to either find a autodetecting app, or hack one. I don't know about the SCSI support, because I don't have a SCSI CD-Rom (technically... even though I have a CD-RW which has to use the IDE-SCSI drivers).

I actually haven't tried a LiveCD yet :oops:

... As I already had UT2003, but I'm downloading America's Army at the moment.